The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A GERMAN has invented and manufactured
paper which ressts both fire and water.
WHILE a well was being dug on the farm of
Andrew Ssson, near Swan Creek, Ill the work
men dug up a petrifed orange. 1t was found
over forty feet below the surface.
A SOLID LUMP OF COAL, containing 81 cubic feet
and weighing 6,351 pounds, was exhibited at the
Texas State Fair recently held at Dallas. 1t was
the largest block of coal ever taken from mine
| in the United States.
THE English church receives in tithes about
$4,000, 600 year. OF this amount S5,OoO,OO0 is
expended in schools, hospitals church build
ings, etc, and the remaining S15,OOO,OOO goes TO
| pay the salaries of the clergy
| A SUBSCRIBER for the Tupelo (Miss.) Journal
writes to that paper to inquire whether there
are any ''mule-footed" hogs in Lee county. He
says there was formerly breed in the county
that bore that name, because they had unsplit
| hoofs like mules.
ALL the training schools for nurses in Phila-
delphia are free. This is one profession for
| women that is not overcrowded and where
women can earn good wages. The chief quail
| fications are good health, good temper. general
| intelligence and a fair common school educa-
| ton.
THOMAS RANDALL, of Buffalo. owes his life to
the habit of wearing celluloid collars. In a
quarrel which he had with a laborer named Nc
| Nerney the latter drew knife and made a
lunge at Randall's neck but the collar broke the
| force of the blow and he escaped with slight
| injuries.
THE LADIES are having their old gold watch
chains, which are no longer worn, made into
bracelets by having the ends brought together
and passed through a ring on the looped END.
| Pendants of whatever cost the wearer can af-
| ford, are hung on the loose ends so that the
| ends cannot pass back again through the loop.
| IT is impossible to say at what date Mr.. Glad
| stone ceased to be a Tory; even he himself
admits that he does not know exactly when the
change took place. all that he is aware OF, being
| that he gradually came to the knowledge that
he did not think like the men among whom he
| had taken his seat in the House; down to 1858
| or 1854 he was probably still, in name at least,
| Tory.
THE Scotch Established church gets ESQ, 900
| from taxes and land and produce-tiends and
| fiars-it has f25, 600 direct from the Imperial
| Treasury consolidated fund.- and manses, globes
| and churches valued at over e100,OOO-a
| total of fully e376,0O0 of national property held
| for the benefit of minority; with Disestablish-
| ment, the property would be available for edu-
cational and local purposes, benefiting all.
A DANBURY MAN recently found what he sup
posed was a mushroom, weighing ten ounces,
which he cooked and ate with relish Soon
! after he felt pain in his stomach, which, fail
| ing to subside, alarmed him. A stomach pump
| and other Salutary methods were applied and he
| soon felt relieved. An exterior examination,
| however, revealed a pin that had worked
| through from his belt and was the cause of all
| the trouble
| SAN Francisco JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
| formulated an oath for a Chinese witness like
the following: 81 swear by the Chinese gods,
the foreigners god, the God of heaven and
| earth that if am liar in this case my head
| will be cut off the same as a chickens head is
| cut off, and that will be drowned in the ocean
| and never get back to China" and while re-
hold noInn
| his hand, with which he severed a chickens
| head from the body when he had finished the
| words.
MRS. A. ]. CAssATT has the reputation of
| being the finest horsewoman in Philadelphia
| She is just now at Paul. in France, where she
frequently enjoys a run with the hounds. Mrs
| Cassatt is very fond of all out-ofdoor sports
| and swims and rows as well as she rides. The
| Misses Drexel, daughters of the late F. A
! Drexel, are also fine riders and may be seen
any morning by the early riSers at Torresdale,
| Pa, where they have their country home, TAX
ing a spin across country before breakfast
They have, by the way, lately returned from a
| visit to the Roman Catholic missions among
| the Indians, and were SO pleased with the work
| that they gave 100000 toward carrying it on
ANOTHER man is going to try to raise i'm
ported pheasants In Jersey preserve. The
last man who tried it was Mr.. Lorillard, and the
first things his birds did was to raise themselves
| over his fence and get themselves shot by Jersey
pot hunters in the neighborhood. Mr.. Stuy-
| vesant. the new would be pheasant raiser, has a
| bigger place, it is understood, than Mr.. Lori
lard's, and may be able to shoot few of his
| own birds, but Mr.. Lorillard's experience was
that the only place they refused to stay was the
home he had provided for them. His birds,
that cost him several dollars apiece, were shot
| in all parts OF Burlington county for year
| after he let them loose, except on his preserve
| at Johnstown
| A DOG at Ashmount, Mass, is establishing a
| reputation for cordially of manner and pure
benevolence. Whenever a..customer enters his
masters shop he advances with dignity and
gravely puts up a paw to be shaken. Some
times a stranger will not understand this unique
welcome, and then the dog will look grieved
| and again manifest his willingness to shake
| hands A singular incident is reported as show
ing that his kindness is extended to dogs as well
| as to his master S friends and customers. Not
| long ago It noticed that he disappeared
regularly for short time after dinner. His
| master, curious to know the cause, followed
| him one day, and found that he went to place
| which was covered with bones picked clean
| Near by lay a dog with an injured leg, who had
| been provided with dinner each day by his
benevolent friend.
| AMONG the recent improvements at the White
| House those made in the Blue Parlor are most
marked. The dingy, light-blue satin canvas
| covering the furniture, to which attention was
| drawn while the fall house cleaning was in
| operation, has been removed, and the dvan
| sofas and chairs have been upholstered in blue
| plush of rich, but delicate shade, and the
| woodwork has also been regilded, producing
| beautiful effect. The new covering on the
| furniture harmonizes with the handsomely fres-
coed walls and ceiling, and also with the newly
| laid carpet. There is but one other change
necessary to render the furnishing of this now
historic room complete and that is in the satin
canvas curtains which were made to match the
| now discarded covering on the furniture and
| which should be replaced by material in keep
ing with the gorgeous surroundings.
THE masher in Brooklyn is not so formidable
an institution as he is in New York. but he is
developing and although he is still held in COM
parative subsection by remembrance of the
fact that Judge Walsh once fined one of his
species $50, he occasionally finds it safe to re-
sumo his airs of insoent familiarity in the pub
lie streets, or at matinees, or in the horse-cars
| Most Brooklyn women, however, agree in de-
| claring that the shameless and persistent mash
er is still stranger to the city, and that when
| he appears at all he is probably an exotic. The
| mild masher, of course, is equally impertinent
and perhaps a trihe more idiotic than his
brazen-faced brother across the river, but he is
not so recklessly and conspicuously intrusive
| and his unwelcome attentions are little more